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Lecture 1: Introduction and Overview

Lecture 2: Barack Obama and the 2008 “Historic” Campaign

Lecture 3:”Candidus”: The Traditional Campaign

Lecture 4: “A Bundle of Compro­mises”: The Constitutional Campaign

Lecture 5: George Washington and Republican Virtue SPOTLIGHT: 1788

Lecture 6: The Emergence of Parties

Lecture 7: Andrew Jackson and the Partisan Campaign SPOTLIGHT: 1828

Lecture 8: Confusion Reigns: 1840 and 1844 SPOTLIGHT: 1840

Lecture 9: Abraham Lincoln: America’s Greatest Politician and Golden Age of Campaigning. SPOTLIGHT: 1860

Lecture 10: SPOTLIGHT 1876: Education and Partisanship: The Stalemate

Lecture 11: SPOTLIGHT 1896: The Battle of the Standards

Lecture 12: The Power of the Press and The Brave New World of Twentieth

Lecture 13 FDR and the Rise of Mass Culture

Lecture 14: Richard Nixon and The Television Revolution: The Checkers Speech

Lecture 15: The Television Revolution

Lecture 16: The Selling of the President, 1960s

Lecture 17: The Modern Campaign: Primarily Overreported?

Lecture 18: Tricky Dick, Betty Ford and the Primal Scene of Presidential Politics

Lecture 19: The Republican Juggernaut

Lecture 20: The Presidency in the Age of the Popular Campaign

Lecture 21: Republicanism and Liberal Democracy in the late 1980s and 1990s…

Lecture 22: George Bush wins in 2000 and 2004: what went wrong — and what went right and Right?

Lecture 23: Conclusions: The Presidential Campaign in a Changing — and Unchanging World